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Experts not involved in the Minnesota work called it 'a landmark achievement' and 'a stunning' development, but they and the Minnesota researchers cautioned that the dream, if ever realized, was still a decade away. With modifications, scientists should be able to grow a human heart by taking stem cells from a patient's bone marrow and placing them in a cadaver heart that has been prepared as a scaffold, [Doris A. Taylor] said in a telephone interview from her laboratory in Minneapolis. The early success 'opens the door to this notion that you can make any organ: kidney, liver, lung, pancreas -- you name it and we hope we can make it,' she said

The marks are reminders of the melanoma surgery he underwent in August 2000. [John McCain], the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, sometimes tells audiences that he has 'more scars than Frankenstein.' The melanoma removed in 2000 was Stage IIa on a standard classification that makes Stage IV the most serious. For Stage IIa melanoma, the survival rate 10 years after diagnosis is about 65 percent. But the outlook is much better for patients like McCain, who have already survived more than seven years. The most serious melanoma was spotted on his temple in 2000 by the attending physician at the U.S. Capitol after it had escaped the eye of McCain's personal physician

The marks are cosmetic reminders of the melanoma surgery he underwent in August 2000. Mr. [John McCain], the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, sometimes tells audiences that he has ''more scars than Frankenstein.'' ''It was a complex problem,'' he said, ''that was handled very skillfully by a team of experts.'' ''No spread of melanoma was found in any of these locations,'' the campaign said. ''However, this preventative procedure had cosmetic side effects for Senator McCain, including swelling at the site of the incision. Thus, the large scar and attendant swelling that Senator McCain has on the left side of his face is not the result of the melanoma itself, which was small and localized, but rather of the more extensive surgical procedure utilized out of a high degree of caution.''

The operation was performed mainly to determine whether the melanoma, a potentially fatal form of skin cancer, had spread from his left temple to a key lymph node in his neck; a preliminary pathology test at the time showed that it had not. In 1999, during McCain's first race for president, he gave the public an extraordinary look at his medical history - 1,500 pages of medical and psychiatric records that were amassed as part of a U.S. Navy project to gauge the health of former prisoners of war.

The melanoma removed in 2000 was Stage IIa on a standard classification that makes Stage IV the most serious. For Stage IIa melanoma, the survival rate 10 years after diagnosis is about 65 percent. But the outlook is much better for patients like [John McCain], who have already survived more than seven years. Even if the melanoma returns, McCain would not be the first sitting president to have had cancer. From what information he has disclosed, he is at increased risk for melanoma and other skin cancers because of his medical history, fair skin and prolonged sun exposure at a young age - long before the wide use of sunscreen. The most serious melanoma was spotted on his temple in 2000 by the attending physician at the U.S. Capitol after it had escaped the eye of McCain's personal physician at Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, in Arizona. The Capitol physician also spotted the melanoma on his left arm

The melanoma removed in 2000 was Stage IIa on a standard classification that makes Stage IV the most serious. For Stage IIa melanoma, the survival rate 10 years after diagnosis is about 65 percent. But the outlook is much better for patients like [John McCain], who have already survived more than seven years. Even if the melanoma returns, McCain would not be the first sitting president to have had cancer. From what information he has disclosed, he is at increased risk for melanoma and other skin cancers because of his medical history, fair skin and prolonged sun exposure at a young age - long before the wide use of sunscreen. The most serious melanoma was spotted on his temple in 2000 by the attending physician at the U.S. Capitol after it had escaped the eye of McCain's personal physician at Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, in Arizona

Nearly half the blacks in the study of teenagers ages 14 to 19 were infected with at least one of the diseases monitored in the study - human papillomavirus, or HPV; chlamydia; genital herpes; and trichomoniasis, a common parasite. [...] the diseases, which are infections caused by bacteria, viruses and parasites, can produce acute symptoms such as irritating vaginal discharge, painful pelvic inflammatory disease and potentially fatal ectopic pregnancy.

The two most common sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among all the participants tested were HPV, at 18 per cent, and chlamydia, at 4 per cent, according to the analysis, part of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Women may be unaware that they are infected. But the diseases, which are infections caused by bacteria, viruses and parasites, can produce acute symptoms like irritating vaginal discharge, painful pelvic inflammatory disease and potentially fatal ectopic pregnancy. The infections also can lead to long-term ailments like infertility and cervical cancer. 'High STD infection rates among young women, particularly young African-American women, are clear signs that we must continue developing ways to reach those most at risk,' said Dr. John M. Douglas Jr., who directs the centers' division of STD prevention.

''High S.T.D. infection rates among young women, particularly young African-American women, are clear signs that we must continue developing ways to reach those most at risk,'' said Dr. John M. Douglas Jr., who directs the centers' division of S.T.D. prevention. ''The national policy of promoting abstinence-only programs is a $1.5 billion failure,'' Ms. [Cecile Richards] said, ''and teenage girls are paying the real price.'' ''Far too many young women are at risk for the serious health effects of untreated S.T.D.'s, '' she said

While the world awaits findings from new AIDS prevention trials, millions of people are becoming infected because governments are overlooking studies showing that behavior modification works, AIDS experts said Tuesday. The world cannot treat its way out of the AIDS epidemic, many experts have long said, and a scientific debate exists over the extent to which antiretroviral therapy can reduce transmission of the virus. A pressing need exists to combine HIV prevention and treatment efforts, experts said Tuesday